Culture In The Digital Age

 The Northern Voices Project BBC Three and BBC England have announced three new commissions in collaboration with northern independent production companies as part of their Northern Voices project. With the aim of reflecting the life experiences of 16-24 year-olds in the region, the Factual Development Scheme invited local independent production companies to submit ideas which, if successful, would undergo development and gain a commission. The Northern Voices collaboration furthers BBC Three’s commitment to uncover original and untold stories from exciting new voices outside of London. BBC Three’s controller Fiona Campbell commented: “These three original commissions are exactly why it is so important for us to collaborate with BBC England and the nation’s teams. We were blown away by the ideas presented to us and we’re proud that BBC Three can be the platform to tell these stories and showcase new voices.” The Northern Voices project allows young people from the north of England ...

The BBC The BBC is  a public service broadcaster established by Royal Charter . It's funded by the license fee paid by UK households. It provides ten national TV channels, regional TV programmes, an internet TV service (BBC Three), 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website. (Google) The BBC is a politically neutral platform, so therefore anything that is politically biased towards 1 particular party is not allowed to be aired. The BBC doesn't have adverts from other companies since it makes it's money of license fees.  The BBC was the first ever British TV channel founded on the 18th October 1922 by John Reith and Baron Reith.  The Reith principles are : Inform, Educate, Entertain  All BBC programs must follow at least 1 of these principles. The TV License (£159 a year) means that the BBC can't be in direct competition with any other TV channel. The BBC is meant to appeal to a very niche audience. The History of BBC Three BBC T...

  Sunderland Till I Die Season 2 is a comedy... I mean a documentary about Sunderland AFC which has to be one of the worst run football clubs on the planet. The documentary follows Sunderland's 18/19 campaign and goes into more depth showing everyone what actually went on behind the scenes giving the fans a rude awakening of just how shocking and amateur the Madrox regime is. This documentary is mostly a observational documentary which means you are a fly on the wall watching Stewart Donald getting ripped off by Wigan Athletic for the 3 million pound signing of Will Grigg who turned out to have the desire and end product of a squashed cream egg. The documentary was actually quite popular despite things not going so well for Sunderland (Again) in fact that's probably why it's popular. Meet The Cast Madrox Who Bought The Club Using Parachute Payments Meet Stewart Donald (AKA Donald Duck) the majority share holder of Sunderland AFC. Stewart Donald is what I would call a black ...

 So there is lots of different types of documentaries out there and each one has their own individual styles and ideas. Here is a few different types of documentaries :  Poetic Documentaries Expository Documentaries. Observational Documentaries. Participatory Documentaries Reflexive Documentaries Each of these documentary types present different ways to create a documentary with some being more realistic than others. Observational Documentaries are like being a fly on the wall meanwhile Poetic Documentaries are more structured like a story. Certain documentaries (participatory) contain the person making the documentary participating in it such as Super Size Me.  Poetic Documentaries Poetic Documentaries were first introduced in the 1920’s. Their main aim is to focus on experience, images and shows people the world from a different set of viewpoint. They are mainly loose and abstract depicting a kind of feeling rather than the truth. It is individualistic and experimental ...

So The Brief I'm Working on is the Culture In The Digital Age brief which is inspired by the BBC northern voices project. BBC Three and BBC England are collaborating for the first time to create this project in hope to give voices to northern people and capture the culture in the process. I will be making a short documentary film targeted towards 16-24 year old's in hope to encourage them to think about the impact of the digital age on modern society. The documentary is for BBC Three and has to be at least 15 minutes long. The documentary has to be at a solid professional standard and meet the expectations of the brief. I will attend a number of skills workshops to develop a range of skills appropriate to specialisms I am working in. Throughout the workshops I will need to find out the strengths and limitations of these skills to develop my response to theme "My Culture".  What Defines Culture :   What You Watch (Movies,Videos) What You Wear (Style) Where You Go (Plac...